Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naturally," explained El Tiempo with a sly dig at Colombian President Laureano Gómez, "all this has nothing to do with us here in Colombia. But this kind of hagiolatry might spread the length and breadth of the continent with the appearance of further saints of this type. Perhaps the canonization of Saint Odría of Peru and Saint Trujillo of the Dominican Republic already is in the works. When the day comes that there are five or seven heavenly governments in this hemisphere, it will be the last bell for democracy...
...Russia , . . there is no trace of formal Jewish organization or institutions . . . There is not a single Jewish newspaper or periodical throughout the length and breadth of the Soviet Union. Hebrew is forbidden. Religious instruction and everything that smacks of religious tradition is under the same ban . . . Everything Jewish is either eliminated or else suffocated under a heavy blanket of official silence...
...division between Roman Catholics and other Christians was widened last week-by a split hair's breadth. A secret consistory was called to meet in Rome Oct. 30 to hear the Pope proclaim as official Roman Catholic dogma that the Virgin Mary was taken bodily into heaven at her death. The decision drew a prompt and strongly worded attack from the Church of England...
Across the River. Earlier, a reconnaissance battalion of a regimental combat team made a daring dash 22 miles behind Communist lines, captured valuable documents, maps and Russian-made equipment. The U.S. force came within a hair's breadth of annihilation by heavy enemy fire when Red artillery shells killed or wounded the crews of its two lead tanks and the rest of the column piled up behind them. But Private Ray Roberts, a 19-year-old ex-bulldozer operator who had started the reconnaissance as a bazooka man, took over the controls of the lead tank (although...
...days last week, revolution seemed just a hand's breadth away in Guatemala. Three citizens had already been killed in presidential campaign street fighting. University students, merchants and professional men, blaming the police for the deaths, had launched a general strike. Thus, once again, enemies of the government gathered in downtown Sixth Avenue to demand the resignation of left-wing President Juan José Arévalo. At the same time, 3,000 Arevalista workers, backers of government Presidential Candidate Jacopo Arbenz, staged a counter-demonstration in the Parque Barrios...